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Timeline
1910
 * 20 November – born Anna Pauline Murray in Baltimore MD USA

1928
 * entered Hunter College, New York City NY USA

1938
 * December – applied to and refused entry into the University of North Carolina

1940
 * March – arrested for refusing to sit on the back of a bus in Petersburg, Virginia, in an incident of racial bias

1942
 * As a friend of Fellowship of Reconciliation Campus Travelers, James L. Farmer and Bayard Rustin she adopted the nonviolent techniques of the new Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) for restaurant sit-ins in Washington, D.C., representing seventeen women who sat-in at restaurants, while she was a law student, at Howard University.


 * All For Mr. Davis: Odell Waller’s story as told by Pauli Murray and Murray Kempton with a preface by President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina and a statement of the bearing of the poll tax on Waller’s case and on the "right to a fair jury and a free vote" was published by the Workers Defense League and re-published by the League For Adult Education.

1944
 * received LL.B from Howard University, Washington DC USA
 * awarded Rosenwald Fellowship but refused entry to Harvard University as a result of gender bias

1945
 * received LL.M from University of California, Berkeley CA USA
 * became the first African-American woman to serve as an Assistant Attorney General for the state of California

1946
 * ran for the New York City Council (Brooklyn), came in second
 * named Woman of the Year by the National Council of Negro Women

1947
 * named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle magazine

1950
 * States' Laws on Race and Color was published by Woman’s Division of Christian Service, Board of Missions of the Methodist Church.

1952 Her references? Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph
 * lost a post at Cornell University because her references were considered too radical.

1956
 * hired by Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison, New York City NY USA
 * October – Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family was published by Harper & Row

1960
 * traveled to and was a senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Law in Accra, Ghana

1961
 * appointed to the President's Commission on the Status of Women Committee on Civil and Political Rights
 * The constitution and government of Ghana by Leslie Rubin and Pauli Murray was published by Sweet & Maxwell, London, England, United Kingdom. A second edition was published in 1964 by Sweet & Maxwell as well as African Universities Press of Lagos, Nigeria.

1965
 * received J.S.D. from Yale University, New Haven CT USA

1966
 * co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW)

1967
 * served as vice-president and professor of Political Science at Benedict College, Columbia SC USA
 * Human Rights U. S. A.; 1948-1966. was published by the Cincinnati Service Center, Board of Missions, Methodist Church.

1968
 * served as a visiting professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University, Waltham MA USA

1970
 * Dark Testament and Other Poems was published by Silvermine
 * awarded the Alumni Award for Distinguished Post-Graduate Achievement in Law and Public Service, Howard University, Washington DC USA

1971
 * awarded the Louis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics and a full professorship of American Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham MA USA
 * received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award, Professional Women's Caucus

1972
 * received the Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Award

1973
 * enshrined in the Hunter College Hall of Fame, Hunter College, New York City NY USA
 * Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family was re-published by the Reprint Company of Spartanburg SC USA.

1976
 * received Master of Divinity, General Theological Seminary, New York City NY USA
 * received honorary degree, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA

1977
 * 8 January – ordained as an Episcopal priest, the first African-American woman to do so, at the National Cathedral, Washington DC USA

1978
 * received honorary degree, Radcliffe College, Cambridge MA USA
 * Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family was re-published by Harper & Row.

1979
 * received honorary degree, Yale University, New Haven CT USA

1982
 * Award for Exemplary Christian Ministry, National Institute for Women of Color

1985
 * ''1 July – died of cancer, in Pittsburgh PA USA

1987
 * Her autobiography, Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage, was published posthumously by Harper & Row

1988
 * awarded Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage
 * awarded the Christopher Award for Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage

1989
 * Pauli Murray: the autobiography of a Black activist, feminist, lawyer, priest, and poet., originally titled Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage, was [re-]published by the University of Tennessee Press.

1990
 * Orange County, NC USA established the Pauli Murray Human Relations Award to commemorate her life's work,

1997
 * States' Laws on Race and Color was re-published by the University of Georgia Press.

1999
 * Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family was re-published by Beacon Press.

2006
 * Pauli Murray & Caroline Ware: forty years of letters in black and white, edited by Anne Firor Scott, was published by the University of North Carolina Press.
 * Pauli Murray: selected sermons and writings, edited with an introduction by Anthony B. Pinn, was published by Orbis Books.